Handel: Alexander's Feast

Donna Brown, Carolyn Watkinson, Ashley Stafford, Nigel Robson, Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1988-01-01 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: Overture
  6:12
• 2
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "T'was at the royal feast"
  0:49
• 3
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "Happy, happy, happy pair!"
  4:45
• 4
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "Timotheus placed on high"
  0:19
• 5
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The song began from Jove"
  0:49
• 6
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The listening crowd admired the lofty sound"
  2:16
• 7
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "With ravish'd ears"
  3:25
• 8
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The praise of Bacchus then"
  0:29
• 9
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "Bacchus, ever fair and young"
  4:40
• 10
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain"
  0:34
• 11
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "He chose a mournful Muse"
  1:20
• 12
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "He sung Darius, great and good"
  3:02
• 13
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate"
  0:53
• 14
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "Behold Darius great and good"
  3:06
• 15
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The mighty master smiled to see"
  0:28
• 16
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "Softly sweet in Lydian measures"
  3:00
• 17
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "War, he sung, is toil and trouble"
  5:19
• 18
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The many rend the skies with loud applause"
  3:56
• 19
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The prince, unable to conceal his pain"
  6:05
• 20
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The many rend the skies with loud applause"
  4:03
• 1
  Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": I. Allegro
  3:31
• 2
  Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": II. Largo - Adagio
  1:51
• 3
  Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": III. Allegro - Adagio
  3:25
• 4
  Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": IV. Andante non Presto
  4:06
• 5
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Now strike the golden lyre again" - "Break his bond" "Hark, hark! the horrid sound"
  2:20
• 6
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries" - "Behold, a ghastly band"
  5:06
• 7
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Give the vengeance due"
  1:46
• 8
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "The princes applaud with a furious joy"
  2:07
• 9
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Thaïs led the way" - "The princes applaud"
  5:27
• 10
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Thus, long ago"
  2:47
• 11
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "At last divine Cecilia came"
  3:08
• 12
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Your voices tune, and raise them high"
  0:32
• 13
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Let's imitate her notes above!"
  2:28
• 14
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Let old Timotheus yield the prize"
  0:20
• 15
  Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Let old Timotheus yield the prize"
  3:46